Friday 11 December 2009 8:40am EDT
In the Tasman Sea 800 (roughly) nm East of Coffs Harbour
33 10S 168 31 E tlog 18805 (start 18005)
Boat speed 6-8, wind N-NW 10-18, .8m seas, COG 115t
Distance to top of NZ 212nm
Barometer 1025.9 Blue spinnaker full main
161 nm -24 hr run Noon to Noon
Hello from the downwind flyers in the Tasman,
Breakfast done yesterday we put up our favourite 2.2 oz blue chute, pulled up the full main, and sailed off in 10 knots of N NW wind. The thing is still up 24 hours later - we are hoping to keep it up until we sight NZ hopefully tomorrow.
Now to more important matters - the multigrain bread lasted until today but we have some in the freezer so don't worry thanks. The DG stew with Debbie was great last night however disaster struck when the red AND the white wine casks ran dry - the solution is to persuade Gringo to pop the corks on his tubes of red., and not to bring Bill next time.
The Cruise Director put on the movie 'Shoot em Up' starring that meanie C Owen - and that sommelier P Giamatti - the perfect comedy for 5 old guys in the middle of an ocean somewhere. Our favourite quote is 'guns don't kill people but they sure do help'.
Not long to land now
